About Michel de Montaigne:
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with serious intellectual insight; his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts" or "Trials") contains some of the most influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers all over the world, including Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albert Hirschman, William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer, Isaac Asimov, and possibly on the later works of William Shakespeare.
He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.
Michel de MontaigneMeditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
Michel de MontaigneAll we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
Michel de MontaigneNo man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Michel de MontaigneHow many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?
Michel de Montaigne